Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice

President and Dean

Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice provides a valuable combination of experience at the highest
levels of patient care and medical research, as well as organizational management
and public health policy. Marrying her management skills and strategic thinking to tackle challenging problems,
she has a track record of redesigning complex organization's management infrastructures to
reflect the needs of evolving strategic environments and position the organization
for success.

The sixth president of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and the first woman to lead
the free-standing medical institution, Dr. Montgomery Rice serves as both the president
and dean. A renowned infertility specialist and researcher, she most recently served
as dean and executive vice president of MSM, where she served since 2011.

Prior to MSM, she served as dean of the School of Medicine and senior vice president
of health affairs at Meharry Medical College where she founded and directed the Center
for Women’s Health Research, one of the nation’s first research centers devoted to
studying diseases that disproportionately impact women of color.

Dedicated to the creation and advancement of health equity, she holds membership in
many organizations and boards such as: National Institute on Minority Health and Health
Disparities and Office of Research on Women’s Health/National Institutes of Health
(NIH) advisory councils (2013-); Society for Women’s Health Research board (2012-2015);
March of Dimes board (2012-2016); Association of American Medical Colleges Council
of Deans Administrative board (2012-); Consultant, FDA Advisory Committee for Reproductive
Health Drugs (2011-2015); President’s Commission on White House Fellowships Regional
Panelist Selection Committee (2010); Every Life Matters, Every Dollar Counts Campaign
chair, National AIDS Fund board of trustees (2009-2010); National Aids Fund board
of trustees (2007-2011); and Wal-Mart External Advisory Board (2006-2008).

A Georgia native, Dr. Montgomery Rice holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from
the Georgia Institute of Technology and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School.
She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Emory University School
of Medicine and her fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Hutzel
Hospital in Detroit, MI.

Dr. Montgomery Rice has been married to her fellow Georgia Institute of Technology
alumnus, Melvin Rice, Jr, for 25 years. They have two children, Jayne, an entering
medical student at Harvard Medical School, and Melvin, a senior at Ringling College
of Art and Design.